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Afghanistan
US to Recruit Former Afghan Military Pilots and Forces to Fight Russia against Ukraine
2022-08-30
[KhaamaPress] The US Pentagon reportedly recruits former Afghan military pilots and special unit members, trains them, and then dispatches them to Ukraine through Poland, according to Russian media citing a military-diplomatic source.
That’s an unexpected way to get them safely out of the country.
The US Department of Defense, aka the Pentagon, began hiring former Afghan pilots a year ago and training them in Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, so they could enter Ukraine through Poland, according to a Russian military-diplomatic source who spoke to the TASS Russian news agency.

The recruited Afghan military forces will undergo extensive training, after which they will be deployed to "combat zones" in Ukraine to fight Russia, the Russian news agency reported.
And if, later, they should happen to turn their skills against the current conquerers of their homeland...
Earlier, it was said that the Afghan army’s military aircraft were deployed in the conflict in Ukraine. Additionally, an American senator said that some former Afghan special forces were in control of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps.
I’m not sure what that last means, but it sounds meaningful.
Earlier, Zamir Kabulov, the Russian president’s special representative for Afghanistan, stated that Russia does not want Ukraine to have access to the military helicopters and aircraft used by the Afghan government that were evacuated to Uzbekistan and Tajikistan last year.
Of course they don’t. Nor any other aid, either, in the hope of making their revolt quickly run out of steam.
Last year in mid-August, amid the Taliban
...mindless ferocity in a turban...
’s takeover of Afghanistan as Foreign troops withdrew, Afghan pilots with US training flew dozens of military jets and helicopters to Tajikistan and Uzbekistan.

Contrary to general expectations, Ukraine has managed to withstand the Russian invasion six months after Russia’s armed invasion with the support of the West.

Despite not actively intervening in the war in Ukraine, NATO
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A cautionary tale of cost-benefit analysis....
 and its member states have, nonetheless, provided the country-at-war billions of dollars worth of military support.
Posted by:trailing wife

#14  Funny thing about Burisma's owner is that he wasn't just the henchman of one Putin puppet (i.e. Yanukovich), but a second one - Mykola Azarov, who actually set up a Ukrainian government in exile after Yanukovich was impeached and removed by the Ukrainian Parliament.
Posted by: Zhang Fei   2022-08-30 21:20  

#13  The annual Pentagon budget bill, of which the training measure is a part, will be taken up by the Senate in September. Whether the training amendment survives the reconciliation process (between House and Senate budgets) is an open question. But it's clearly not something being rejected out of hand. Why train them if they're not getting the gear?
Posted by: Zhang Fei   2022-08-30 21:12  

#12  There will not be any modern fighting or attack aircraft sent to Ukraine by the US. Ain't. Gonna. Happen.

Joe is feeling a ton of pressure to show a real foreign policy success. Despite being on Putin's payroll through Burisma (owned by Yanukovich henchman in exile from Ukraine) and the Mayor of Moscow, the fact is that everything he does for Ukraine is a kind of penance for taking Putin's bribes. And a media that covers for his naked showers with his preteen daughter - as noted in that daughter's diary entry - will undoubtedly explain those bribes away. So never say never on those F-16's. The House has approved a training bill to the tune of $100m, to be taken out of the $57.6b appropriated (but a sliver of which has been spent) so far.

www.globaldefensecorp.com/2022/08/22/u-s-approves-100-million-to-train-ukrainian-pilots-on-f-15-and-f-16-fighter-jets/
Posted by: Zhang Fei   2022-08-30 21:10  

#11  Hey ACA where Putin's Offensive you said would start days ago.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2022-08-30 14:08  

#10  
Posted by: ACA JOE   2022-08-30 14:04  

#9  It didn’t occur to me last night as I was working up the article, but setting the hypothetical Afghans against the Chechens would prevent a certain amount of planned Chechen jihading against the native population.

according to a Russian military-diplomatic source who spoke to the TASS Russian news agency.

Good catch, Snash Shairt9621. Once again demonstrating that Rantburg is a team project.
Posted by: trailing wife   2022-08-30 13:38  

#8  "So what are they going to fly?"

"What? No, we are going to encourage them to join the Russians."
Posted by: swksvolFF   2022-08-30 12:34  

#7  If western planes are sent, they will not be the F-16s or the like. They need prepared airfields and those are huge and easy targets that even the Russians can hit. Saab JAS 39 Gripen is a better choice as it can operate off small side roads and dirt roads and even level fields and take a very small crew footprint to fuel and rearm them.

Personally I don't think the Ukrainians need many more aircraft or attack helicopters to fight well. Artillery (and more accurate rockets), IFV, APCs and most importantly tanks are what is needed. Especially tanks and artillery if they are going on the attack.
Posted by: DarthVader   2022-08-30 11:37  

#6  I concur with #5. Modern US aircraft ain't gonna be sent over there.
--Though some USAF General may float the idea of throwing away sending A-10s privately.
Posted by: magpie   2022-08-30 11:10  

#5  ...to Fight Russia against Ukraine
?? So.. "a plague on both your houses"??

and yes that IS my only worthwhile line
Posted by: Mercutio   2022-08-30 10:49  

#4  There will not be any modern fighting or attack aircraft sent to Ukraine by the US. Ain't. Gonna. Happen.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2022-08-30 10:42  

#3   I doubt it's true for this reason, but, I'd support the US training pilots and arming them with helos and modern aircraft myself if needed.

More likely we are training Ukraine pilots in the US for air combat here in the next many months on old F 16s and Warthogs.
Posted by: Omineling Forkbeard1962   2022-08-30 10:25  

#2  Oh, like the US is soooooooooo trustworthy.
Posted by: DooDahMan   2022-08-30 07:17  

#1  according to a Russian military-diplomatic source who spoke to the TASS Russian news agency.

Would the Russians lie to you? Ukraine has many more pilots than aircraft.
Posted by: Snash Shairt9621   2022-08-30 06:51  

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